11-letter words containing a, b, s, i
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastematic — blastemal
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- braggartism — the activity of a braggart
- brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.